Linde was awarded the contract for the construction of a facility to produce Linear Alpha Olefins from the Jubail United Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC).
The value of the contract for the facility to be constructed in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia is approx. US $200 million.
The order encompasses engineering, delivery, assembly/construction and monitoring of the facility and should be completed by mid-2006. The so-called a-SABLIN process (jointly developed by SABIC and Linde) will be used during the implementation.